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Ghana’s Grid Vulnerability: Akosombo, Solar Energy and the urgent case for decentralised power
The Akosombo incident has exposed why Ghana must rethink centralised grid systems.
Amelley Djosu: Dear comedians, the headliner should not be the weakest link
The issue is not that headliners are not funny. It is that many of their sets feel unprepared, too long, and out of touch with the audience.
When Prime Real Estate becomes a prime flood risk: Lessons from the June 29 floods
The devastating flooding of Monday, June 29, 2026 is another painful reminder that Ghana's flooding crisis is no longer confined to low-income communities.
Green finance: Legal foundations, global realities, and Ghana’s regulatory pathway
Green finance has emerged as a central mechanism in the global response to climate change and environmental degradation. At its core, it refers to financial flows such as investments, loans, and bonds directed toward environmentally sustainable projects. Yet its effectiveness is not determined by capital alone. It depe...
Ghana’s flood response and the cost of budgeting by crisis
Following the devastating floods on Tuesday, 30th June, in Accra, President John Dramani Mahama directed the Minister for Finance to release GH¢300 million from the Contingency Fund: GH¢150 million for emergency relief and GH¢150 million for mitigation works. Hours later, on the floor of Parliament, the Minister for th...
Accra: A city built to drown – A practical blueprint for ending Accra’s urban floods
When the rain starts in Accra, the panic sets in.
The photocopy machine operator will save us
There is something deeply amusing about the way many African communities approach development. A neighbourhood can be full of engineers, contractors, surveyors, architects, quantity surveyors, project managers, geologists, and hydrologists. Yet everyone sits comfortably in their homes complaining about dusty roads, pot...
Energy security: Why Ghana must urgently fast-track the new mooring system project at Tema
Ghana’s downstream petroleum sector remains one of the most strategic pillars of the national economy. Virtually every major sector of the economy depends directly or indirectly on an uninterrupted supply of petroleum products.
What Is Wrong with Us? The children are not failing us. They are following us.
The values we model today become the society we inherit tomorrow. The Question We Are Afraid to Ask Across Africa, a familiar lament echoes through homes, classrooms, places of worship, workplaces, and television studios. Parents worry that young people have become impatient and entitled. Teachers complain that discipl...
Raducanu beaten in French Open first round
Emma Raducanu's French Open campaign came to an early end as she suffered a frustrating first-round defeat by Argentina's Solana Sierra.
Cobolli using Nadal’s shower in bid for French Open glory
Flavio Cobolli is two wins away from clinching a maiden Grand Slam title at the French Open and he is doing everything he can to make it happen - including using 14-time champion Rafael Nadal's favoured shower cubicle at Roland Garros.
Freedom without restraint is not freedom
A note on the abuse of free speech in the age of the internet Every generation inherits a freedom it did not fully build and does not fully understand. Ours inherited the freedom to speak to everyone, everywhere, at once — and we are still discovering, often the hard way, that a right this powerful […]